Remove the hard coded encodings from parse-events. This has the
consequence that software events are matched using the sysfs/json
priority, will be case insensitive and will be wildcarded across PMUs.
As there were software and hardware types in the parsing code, the
removal means software vs hardware logic can be removed and hardware
assumed.
Now the perf json provides detailed descriptions of software events,
remove the previous listing support that didn't contain event
descriptions. When globbing is required for the "sw" option in perf
list, use string PMU globbing as was done previously for the tool PMU.
The output of `perf list sw` command changed like this.
Before:
List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M):
alignment-faults [Software event]
bpf-output [Software event]
cgroup-switches [Software event]
context-switches OR cs [Software event]
cpu-clock [Software event]
cpu-migrations OR migrations [Software event]
dummy [Software event]
emulation-faults [Software event]
major-faults [Software event]
minor-faults [Software event]
page-faults OR faults [Software event]
task-clock [Software event]
After:
List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M):
software:
alignment-faults
[Number of kernel handled memory alignment faults. Unit: software]
bpf-output
[An event used by BPF programs to write to the perf ring buffer. Unit: software]
cgroup-switches
[Number of context switches to a task in a different cgroup. Unit: software]
context-switches
[Number of context switches [This event is an alias of cs]. Unit: software]
cpu-clock
[Per-CPU high-resolution timer based event. Unit: software]
cpu-migrations
[Number of times a process has migrated to a new CPU [This event is an alias of migrations]. Unit: software]
cs
[Number of context switches [This event is an alias of context-switches]. Unit: software]
dummy
[A placeholder event that doesn't count anything. Unit: software]
...
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250725185202.68671-4-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Topdown metric events require grouping with a slots event. In perf
metrics this is currently achieved by metrics adding an unnecessary
"0 * tma_info_thread_slots". New TMA metrics trigger optimizations of
the metric expression that removes the event and breaks the metric due
to the missing but required event. Add a pass immediately before
sorting and fixing parsed events, that insert a slots event if one is
missing. Update test expectations to match this.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250719030517.1990983-15-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Counting events system-wide with a specified CPU prior to this change
worked:
```
$ perf stat -e 'msr/tsc/,msr/tsc,cpu=cpu_core/,msr/tsc,cpu=cpu_atom/' -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
59,393,419,099 msr/tsc/
33,927,965,927 msr/tsc,cpu=cpu_core/
25,465,608,044 msr/tsc,cpu=cpu_atom/
```
However, when counting with process the counts became system wide:
```
$ perf stat -e 'msr/tsc/,msr/tsc,cpu=cpu_core/,msr/tsc,cpu=cpu_atom/' perf test -F 10
10.1: Basic parsing test : Ok
10.2: Parsing without PMU name : Ok
10.3: Parsing with PMU name : Ok
Performance counter stats for 'perf test -F 10':
59,233,549 msr/tsc/
59,227,556 msr/tsc,cpu=cpu_core/
59,224,053 msr/tsc,cpu=cpu_atom/
```
Make the handling of CPU maps with event parsing clearer. When an
event is parsed creating an evsel the cpus should be either the PMU's
cpumask or user specified CPUs.
Update perf_evlist__propagate_maps so that it doesn't clobber the user
specified CPUs. Try to make the behavior clearer, firstly fix up
missing cpumasks. Next, perform sanity checks and adjustments from the
global evlist CPU requests and for the PMU including simplifying to
the "any CPU"(-1) value. Finally remove the event if the cpumask is
empty.
So that events are opened with a CPU and a thread change stat's
create_perf_stat_counter to give both.
With the change things are fixed:
```
$ perf stat --no-scale -e 'msr/tsc/,msr/tsc,cpu=cpu_core/,msr/tsc,cpu=cpu_atom/' perf test -F 10
10.1: Basic parsing test : Ok
10.2: Parsing without PMU name : Ok
10.3: Parsing with PMU name : Ok
Performance counter stats for 'perf test -F 10':
63,704,975 msr/tsc/
47,060,704 msr/tsc,cpu=cpu_core/ (4.62%)
16,640,591 msr/tsc,cpu=cpu_atom/ (2.18%)
```
However, note the "--no-scale" option is used. This is necessary as
the running time for the event on the counter isn't the same as the
enabled time because the thread doesn't necessarily run on the CPUs
specified for the counter. All counter values are scaled with:
scaled_value = value * time_enabled / time_running
and so without --no-scale the scaled_value becomes very large. This
problem already exists on hybrid systems for the same reason. Here are
2 runs of the same code with an instructions event that counts the
same on both types of core, there is no real multiplexing happening on
the event:
```
$ perf stat -e instructions perf test -F 10
...
Performance counter stats for 'perf test -F 10':
87,896,447 cpu_atom/instructions/ (14.37%)
98,171,964 cpu_core/instructions/ (85.63%)
...
$ perf stat --no-scale -e instructions perf test -F 10
...
Performance counter stats for 'perf test -F 10':
13,069,890 cpu_atom/instructions/ (19.32%)
83,460,274 cpu_core/instructions/ (80.68%)
...
```
The scaling has inflated per-PMU instruction counts and the overall
count by 2x.
To fix this the kernel needs changing when a task+CPU event (or just
task event on hybrid) is scheduled out. A fix could be that the state
isn't inactive but off for such events, so that time_enabled counts
don't accumulate on them.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250719030517.1990983-13-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
On hybrid systems, events like msr/tsc/ will aggregate counts across
all CPUs. Often metrics only want a value like msr/tsc/ for the cores
on which the metric is being computed. Listing each CPU with terms
cpu=0,cpu=1.. is laborious and would need to be encoded for all
variations of a CPU model.
Allow the cpumask from a PMU to be an argument to the cpu term. For
example in the following the cpumask of the cstate_pkg PMU selects the
CPUs to count msr/tsc/ counter upon:
```
$ cat /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cstate_pkg/cpumask
0
$ perf stat -A -e 'msr/tsc,cpu=cstate_pkg/' -a sleep 0.1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
CPU0 252,621,253 msr/tsc,cpu=cstate_pkg/
0.101184092 seconds time elapsed
```
As the cpu term is now also allowed to be a string, allow it to encode
a range of CPUs (a list can't be supported as ',' is already a special
token).
The "event qualifiers" section of the `perf list` man page is updated
to detail the additional behavior. The man page formatting is tidied
up in this section, as it was incorrectly appearing within the
"parameterized events" section.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250719030517.1990983-5-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Factor requested CPU warning out of evlist and into evsel. At the end
of adding an event, perform the warning check. To avoid repeatedly
testing if the cpu_list is empty, add a local variable.
```
$ perf stat -e cpu_atom/cycles,cpu=1/ -a true
WARNING: A requested CPU in '1' is not supported by PMU 'cpu_atom' (CPUs 16-27) for event 'cpu_atom/cycles/'
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
<not supported> cpu_atom/cycles/
0.000781511 seconds time elapsed
```
Reviewed-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250719030517.1990983-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Commit 7b100989b4 ("perf evlist: Remove __evlist__add_default")
changed to use "cycles:P" as a default event. But the problem is it
cannot set other default modifiers correctly.
perf kvm needs to set attr.exclude_host by default but it didn't work
because of the logic in the parse_events__modifier_list(). Also the
exclude_GH_default was applied only if ":u" modifier was specified -
which is strange. Move it out after handling the ":GH" and check
perf_host and perf_guest properly.
Before:
$ ./perf kvm record -vv true |& grep exclude
(nothing)
But specifying an event (without a modifier) works:
$ ./perf kvm record -vv -e cycles true |& grep exclude
exclude_host 1
After:
It now works for the both cases:
$ ./perf kvm record -vv true |& grep exclude
exclude_host 1
$ ./perf kvm record -vv -e cycles true |& grep exclude
exclude_host 1
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250606225431.2109754-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Fixes: 35c8d21371 ("perf tools: Don't set attr.exclude_guest by default")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The -C option allows the CPUs for a list of events to be specified but
its not possible to set the CPU for a single event. Add a term to
allow this. The term isn't a general CPU list due to ',' already being
a special character in event parsing instead multiple cpu= terms may
be provided and they will be merged/unioned together.
An example of mixing different types of events counted on different CPUs:
```
$ perf stat -A -C 0,4-5,8 -e "instructions/cpu=0/,l1d-misses/cpu=4,cpu=5/,inst_retired.any/cpu=8/,cycles" -a sleep 0.1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
CPU0 6,979,225 instructions/cpu=0/ # 0.89 insn per cycle
CPU4 75,138 cpu/l1d-misses/
CPU5 1,418,939 cpu/l1d-misses/
CPU8 797,553 cpu/inst_retired.any,cpu=8/
CPU0 7,845,302 cycles
CPU4 6,546,859 cycles
CPU5 185,915,438 cycles
CPU8 2,065,668 cycles
0.112449242 seconds time elapsed
```
Committer testing:
root@number:~# grep -m1 "model name" /proc/cpuinfo
model name : AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core Processor
root@number:~# perf stat -A -e "instructions/cpu=0/,instructions,l1d-misses/cpu=4,cpu=5/,cycles" -a sleep 0.1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
CPU0 2,398,351 instructions/cpu=0/ # 0.44 insn per cycle
CPU0 2,398,152 instructions # 0.44 insn per cycle
CPU1 1,265,634 instructions # 0.49 insn per cycle
CPU2 606,087 instructions # 0.50 insn per cycle
CPU3 4,025,752 instructions # 0.52 insn per cycle
CPU4 4,236,810 instructions # 0.53 insn per cycle
CPU5 3,984,832 instructions # 0.66 insn per cycle
CPU6 434,132 instructions # 0.44 insn per cycle
CPU7 65,752 instructions # 0.41 insn per cycle
CPU8 459,083 instructions # 0.48 insn per cycle
CPU9 6,464,161 instructions # 1.31 insn per cycle
<SNIP>
root@number:~# perf stat -e "instructions/cpu=0/,instructions,l1d-misses/cpu=4,cpu=5/,cycles" -a sleep 0.
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
144,822 instructions/cpu=0/ # 0.03 insn per cycle
4,666,114 instructions # 0.93 insn per cycle
2,583 l1d-misses
4,993,633 cycles
0.000868512 seconds time elapsed
root@number:~#
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250403194337.40202-5-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wildcard PMU naming will match a name like pmu_1 to a PMU name like
pmu_10 but not to a PMU name like pmu_2 as the suffix forms part of
the match. No suffix matching will match pmu_10 to either pmu_1 or
pmu_2. Add or rename matching functions on PMU to make it clearer what
kind of matching is being performed.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250201074320.746259-4-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
It seems perf sets the exclude_guest bit because of Intel PEBS
implementation which uses a virtual address. IIUC now kernel disables
PEBS when it goes to the guest mode regardless of this bit so we don't
need to set it explicitly. At least for the other archs/vendors.
I found the commit 1342798cc1 set the exclude_guest for precise_ip
in the tool and the commit 20b279ddb3 added kernel side enforcement
which was reverted by commit a706d965dc later.
Actually it doesn't set the exclude_guest for the default event
(cycles:P) already.
$ grep -m1 vendor /proc/cpuinfo
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
$ perf record -e cycles:P true
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB perf.data (9 samples) ]
$ perf evlist -v | tr ',' '\n' | grep -e exclude -e precise
precise_ip: 3
But having lower 'p' modifier set the bit for some reason.
$ perf record -e cycles:pp true
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB perf.data (9 samples) ]
$ perf evlist -v | tr ',' '\n' | grep -e exclude -e precise
precise_ip: 2
exclude_guest: 1
Actually AMD IBS suffers from this because it doesn't support excludes
and having this bit effectively disables new features in the current
implementation (due to the missing feature check).
$ grep -m1 vendor /proc/cpuinfo
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
$ perf record -W -e cycles:p -vv true 2>&1 | grep switching
switching off PERF_FORMAT_LOST support
switching off weight struct support
switching off bpf_event
switching off ksymbol
switching off cloexec flag
switching off mmap2
switching off exclude_guest, exclude_host
By not setting exclude_guest, we can fix this inconsistency and the
troubles.
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Acked-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>
Cc: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016062359.264929-5-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
The exclude_guest in the event attribute is to limit profiling in the
host environment. But I'm not sure why we want to set it by default
cause we don't care about it in most cases and I feel like it just
makes new PMU implementation complicated.
Of course it's useful for perf kvm command so I added the
exclude_GH_default variable to preserve the old behavior for perf kvm
and other commands like perf record and stat won't set the exclude bit.
This is helpful for AMD IBS case since having exclude_guest bit will
clear new feature bit due to the missing feature check logic.
$ sysctl kernel.perf_event_paranoid
kernel.perf_event_paranoid = 0
$ perf record -W -e ibs_op// -vv true 2>&1 | grep switching
switching off PERF_FORMAT_LOST support
switching off weight struct support
switching off bpf_event
switching off ksymbol
switching off cloexec flag
switching off mmap2
switching off exclude_guest, exclude_host
Intestingly, I found it sets the exclude_bit if "u" modifier is used.
I don't know why but it's neither intuitive nor consistent. Let's
remove the bit there too.
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Acked-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>
Cc: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016062359.264929-3-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Rather than treat tool events as a special kind of event, create a
tool only PMU where the events/aliases match the existing
duration_time, user_time and system_time events. Remove special
parsing and printing support for the tool events, but add function
calls for when PMU functions are called on a tool_pmu.
Move the tool PMU code in evsel into tool_pmu.c to better encapsulate
the tool event behavior in that file.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241002032016.333748-5-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Hard coded terms like "config=10" are skipped by perf_pmu__config
assuming they were already applied to a perf_event_attr by parse
event's config_attr function. When doing a reverse number to name
lookup in perf_pmu__name_from_config, as the hardcoded terms aren't
applied the config value is incorrect leading to misses or false
matches. Fix this by adding a parameter to have perf_pmu__config apply
hardcoded terms too (not just in parse event's config_term_common).
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241002032016.333748-3-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tool events unnecessarily open a dummy perf event which is useless
even with `perf record` which will still open a dummy event. Change
the behavior of tool events so:
- duration_time - call `rdclock` on open and then report the count as
a delta since the start in evsel__read_counter. This moves code out
of builtin-stat making it more general purpose.
- user_time/system_time - open the fd as either `/proc/pid/stat` or
`/proc/stat` for cases like system wide. evsel__read_counter will
read the appropriate field out of the procfs file. These values
were previously supplied by wait4, if the procfs read fails then
the wait4 values are used, assuming the process/thread terminated.
By reading user_time and system_time this way, interval mode, per
PID and per CPU can be supported although there are restrictions
given what the files provide (e.g. per PID can't be combined with
per CPU).
Opening any of the tool events for `perf record` is changed to return
invalid.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Cc: Ze Gao <zegao2021@gmail.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503232849.17752-1-irogers@google.com
Compiling perf tool with 'DEBUG_PARSER=1' leads to errors:
$> make -C tools/perf PARSER_DEBUG=1 NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1
...
CC util/expr-flex.o
CC util/expr.o
util/parse-events.c:33:12: error: redundant redeclaration of ‘parse_events_debug’ [-Werror=redundant-decls]
33 | extern int parse_events_debug;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from util/parse-events.c:18:
util/parse-events-bison.h:43:12: note: previous declaration of ‘parse_events_debug’ with type ‘int’
43 | extern int parse_events_debug;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
util/expr.c:27:12: error: redundant redeclaration of ‘expr_debug’ [-Werror=redundant-decls]
27 | extern int expr_debug;
| ^~~~~~~~~~
In file included from util/expr.c:11:
util/expr-bison.h:43:12: note: previous declaration of ‘expr_debug’ with type ‘int’
43 | extern int expr_debug;
| ^~~~~~~~~~
cc-1: all warnings being treated as errors
Remove extern declaration from the parse-envents.c file as there is a
conflict with the ones generated using bison and yacc tools from the file
parse-events.[ly].
Signed-off-by: Clément Le Goffic <clement.legoffic@foss.st.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240605140453.614862-1-clement.legoffic@foss.st.com
Use a struct/bitmap rather than a copied string from lexer.
In lexer give improved error message when too many precise flags are
given or repeated modifiers.
Before:
$ perf stat -e 'cycles:kuk' true
event syntax error: 'cycles:kuk'
\___ Bad modifier
...
$ perf stat -e 'cycles:pppp' true
event syntax error: 'cycles:pppp'
\___ Bad modifier
...
$ perf stat -e '{instructions:p,cycles:pp}:pp' -a true
event syntax error: '..cycles:pp}:pp'
\___ Bad modifier
...
After:
$ perf stat -e 'cycles:kuk' true
event syntax error: 'cycles:kuk'
\___ Duplicate modifier 'k' (kernel)
...
$ perf stat -e 'cycles:pppp' true
event syntax error: 'cycles:pppp'
\___ Maximum precise value is 3
...
$ perf stat -e '{instructions:p,cycles:pp}:pp' true
event syntax error: '..cycles:pp}:pp'
\___ Maximum combined precise value is 3, adding precision to "cycles:pp"
...
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Beeman Strong <beeman@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240416061533.921723-14-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Inline parse_events_evlist_error that is only used in
parse_events_error. Modify parse_events_error to not report a parser
error unless errors haven't already been reported. Make it clearer
that the latter case only happens for unrecognized input.
Before:
$ perf stat -e 'cycles/period=99999999999999999999/' true
event syntax error: 'cycles/period=99999999999999999999/'
\___ parser error
event syntax error: '..les/period=99999999999999999999/'
\___ Bad base 10 number "99999999999999999999"
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>]
-e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
$ perf stat -e 'cycles:xyz' true
event syntax error: 'cycles:xyz'
\___ parser error
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>]
-e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
After:
$ perf stat -e 'cycles/period=99999999999999999999/xyz' true
event syntax error: '..les/period=99999999999999999999/xyz'
\___ Bad base 10 number "99999999999999999999"
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>]
-e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
$ perf stat -e 'cycles:xyz' true
event syntax error: 'cycles:xyz'
\___ Unrecognized input
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>]
-e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Beeman Strong <beeman@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240416061533.921723-13-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
